“I think as much as Sage suffered and our family feels the pain of what happened, we always keep in the back of our minds that family is suffering more”. The usually stoic Aleshin said, “It’s a lot of emotions definitely”. [Hitting] the wall didn’t happen, pole position happened.
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Takuma Sato, who drives for AJ Foyt Racing, crushed his previous qualifying best of 2016, finishing third quick in the session.
“We rolled out with one thing and I was pushing my guys to do something different”, Newgarden said. But we were close, we just needed that little bit. “It’s my fault that we changed it”.
“We have a great chemistry and group with our people, but sometimes I mess up”. Congrats to Mikhail, great job by him. Qualifying and Saturday afternoon’s practice were ran without incident. “We had a very good baseline vehicle”.
The Japanese racer admitted the opportunity to test at The Tricky Triangle a couple of weeks ago was beneficial to the team as they showed a good turn of pace around the Superspeedway.
Brown has four victories this year and leads the season standings.
Row three will consist of Colombia’s Carloz Munoz and Canada’s James Hinchcliffe, who is Aleshin’s teammate.
The 2013 Pocono victor Scott Dixon struggled in qualifying posting the 19th fastest speed at 215.337 miles per hour. “The auto was extremely loose and we had quite a few issues this morning”.
Ryan Huntr-Reay, the defending race victor, escaped injury in a morning practice SESsion crash, but now will start Sunday’s 200-lap race from the rear of the 22-car starting field.
Castroneves led Saturday evening’s final practice in preparation for Sunday’s 500-mile race.
Wilson’s widow and two young girls attended the Indy 500, but won’t be at Pocono.
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At an average speed of 220.445 miles per hour [with a best lap of 40.790 seconds] it’s Mikhail Aleshin who grabs his first career Verizon IndyCar Series pole at Pocono Raceway for Sunday’s ABC Supply 500, returning to the 2.5-mile track following a one-year hiatus.
